Elif Shafak

Wisconsin

Contributing Editor at Harper's Bazaar (UK)

Author at Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

Storyteller, Novelist, Writer, Reader, Learner, Human Rights Advocate, Feminist, Introvert, Citizen of Humanity 📚🌈 https://t.co/Fju2plwBdd

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Articles

Elif Shafak on why Turkey’s youth-led protests offer hope

2 weeks ago | ft.com | Elif Shafak

Humour is no laughing matter in Turkey, it is a mechanism for coping with stress and suppression. It carries a deep well of melancholy.
These audiobooks are positively inhuman

4 weeks ago | audible.com | Susie Dumond |Elif Shafak |Gina Balibrera |Kira Jane Buxton

Few literary devices intrigue and engage quite like a unique narrative perspective. Even if an arc feels familiar, the introduction of a new lens can shift the story's impact entirely. If you're looking for stories that can help you look at the world in a new way, tune into one of these audiobooks with nonhuman narrators and protagonists. We've got stories written from the perspectives of animals, plants, robots, inanimate objects, and even former humans.
Abdulrazak Gurnah’s lessons in humanity

4 weeks ago | newstatesman.com | Elif Shafak

We do not leave our motherlands behind, even when we are miles and continents away from them. We carry their voices and memories with us everywhere we go; they seep into our dreams, emerge in our novels, speak through our silences.
Author Elif Shafak, once put on trial for 'insulting Turkishness', warns of crackdown on free speech

1 month ago | heart.co.uk | Elif Shafak

"When history takes a darker turn, it always starts with the omission of words." Your browser doesn't recognise available video formats. Award-winning Turkish author Elif Shafak sat down with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim on The World podcast to talk about her latest novel There Are Rivers In The Sky, the parallels she sees between Turkey and America, and what it was like being on trial for "insulting Turkishness".
Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

1 month ago | elifshafak.substack.com | Elif Shafak

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What's got my attention this week #88

1 month ago | theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com | Poorna Bell |Elif Shafak |E. Jean Carroll |Rosie Spinks

This is the monthly free Friday links and recs round-up from The Shift. If you’d like to receive posts like this every week, plus my weekly post, access the bookclub, archive and chat and more, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. SCROLLING• I knew I wouldn’t be the only one who noticed the way the best actress Oscar race was turned into an instant face-off. “Demi lost to Mikey!” screamed one headline.
Sister Europe - Nell Zink (Buch) – lesen.de

2 months ago | lesen.de | Nell Zink |Elif Shafak |Cormac McCarthy |Stephen King

One wild, exhilarating night in Berlin: a brilliant new novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of our timeAs a Berlin night draws in around the pristine glass exterior of the Hotel Interconti, a ragtag group of friends, family, and potential lovers find themselves frustrated. By promise or threat, they have all gathered at a lavish celebration of an elderly author's venerable career.
Mothers and Sons - Adam Haslett (Buch) – lesen.de

2 months ago | lesen.de | Adam Haslett |Elif Shafak |Cormac McCarthy |George Eliot

A mother and son, estranged but yearning for reunion, reckon at last with the secret that has kept them apart for decades in this highly anticipated novel by one of the most talented American writers of his generationAt forty, Peter, an asylum lawyer in New York City, is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to return to an empty apartment and occasional hook-ups with a man who wants more than Peter can give.
My Dark Prince - L. J. Shen (Buch) – lesen.de

2 months ago | lesen.de | L. Shen |Elif Shafak |Cormac McCarthy |George Eliot

This Sleeping Beauty woke up... In a nightmareFrom Wall Street Journal bestsellers L. J. Shen and Parker S. Huntington comes a twisted second-chance romance between a prince haunted by a dark secret and his reluctant Sleeping Beauty. I'm marrying a beautiful monster. A crooked fraud. America's wealthiest bachelor. He claims we're in love, yet all I taste in our kisses is hate and lust. I don't remember why or how. But I do remember he's the enemy. Now, I'm stuck inside a nightmare.
A Million Kisses In Your Lifetime - Monica Murphy (Buch) – lesen.de

2 months ago | lesen.de | Monica Murphy |Elif Shafak |Cormac McCarthy |George Eliot

DISCOVER THE DEEPLY ROMANTIC AND UNFORGETTABLE TIKTOK SENSATION THAT WILL GRIP YOU UNTIL THE VERY LAST PAGE'Wren and Crew stole my heart and neither of them will give it back. I cannot explain how much I adore this story . . . Full of angst, drama and steam' 5* READER REVIEW'Addictive, angsty and unforgettable . . .